Auto logging input changes in Shiny app — log_shiny_input

This is to be called in the server section of the Shiny app.

Usage

log_shiny_input_changes(
  input,
  namespace = NA_character_,
  excluded_inputs = character(),
  excluded_pattern = "_width$",
  session = shiny::getDefaultReactiveDomain()
)

Arguments

input: passed from Shiny server
namespace: (character(1)) the name of the namespace
excluded_inputs: (character) character vector of input names to exclude from logging
excluded_pattern: (character(1)) regexp pattern of names to be excluded from logging
session: the Shiny session

Details

Function having very similar behavior as logger::log_shiny_input_changes() but adjusted for teal needs.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
library(shiny)

ui <- bootstrapPage(
  numericInput("mean1", "mean1", 0),
  numericInput("mean2", "mean2", 0),
  numericInput("sd", "sd", 1),
  textInput("title", "title", "title"),
  textInput("foo", "This is not used at all, still gets logged", "foo"),
  passwordInput("password", "Password not to be logged", "secret"),
  plotOutput("plot")
)

server <- function(input, output) {
  log_shiny_input_changes(input, excluded_inputs = "password", excluded_pattern = "mean")

  output$plot <- renderPlot({
    hist(rnorm(1e3, input$mean, input$sd), main = input$title)
  })
}

shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)
} # }